I Peel Tick

I feel like this dog looks. But the previous two days I couldn't move from the sofa. What a mess. And what's worse is that it took hold, or at least started to, on Saturday night during Yaz I started to feel light-headed, VERY light-headed. Blows. Chunks. Oh well, I'm human so what do you do? I don't have a great tolerance for sickness and I think I know why. I got this angry vmail from my mother asking why I treat her like such, shall we say, crud, to be nice. Now, admittedly, I was incredibly busy last week and had planned to phone her this weekend, but then I got sick so I haven't called anyone. Not really. Text. Yes. Calls. No (ain't got no voice sir).

Anywho. So I emailed her letting her know I was down for the count. She doesn't reply. Worried that I may have the wrong email address (it happens, I was on my Crackberry) I called her and that conversation went something like this:

Me: Did you get the email I sent? I'm sick which is why I haven't called you back.
Her: Yeah, it was a horrendous day at work, sorry I didn't email you back. What did you do to get yourself sick?
Me: What? I'm to blame for being sick?
Her: Well no, but you must be running yourself down. Are you eating right? Sleeping enough? Taking your vitamins?

Good grief.

To any of the concerned out there, yes, I am feeling better today. I'm no longer making deals with God I cannot keep. I have stopped forcing my dog to cuddle with me when she'd clearly rather bite the hair off of my cat's ears. I showered.

But still, doesn't getting sick in the summer just suck? For some reason it's far worse than getting sick in the winter, I don't know why. I guess because it's so nice outside and here you are laying in a pool of your own stink. The only saving grace was/is that it's so dreadfully hot and humid outside that being indoors isn't such a bad think (says me with a stuffed-up nose). Right?

Today's Links: Library Websites that Stand Out (per my colleagues here at the library, thus, these are not my comments, just paraphrasing theirs)

http://www.library.phila.gov/ Good usability and the interface design is broken-down into three simple categories.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/index.html The main page is good, decent color-scheme, easy to understand. The underlying pages not-so-much.

http://www.library.umass.edu/index.html Good colors and interface design. The five most commonly-used links stay in place on all pages in the gray section.

http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/ Good "Featured Link" and "Did You Know" links. Scrolling news announcement at top also eye-catching.

http://www.library.miami.edu/

http://www.lib.washington.edu/

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/ Drab colors, decent architecture.

A FINAL NOTE: Liz Phair's "Exile in Guyville" just had it's 15th (!!!!!!!) anniversary and there is a special edition out now. Check it out. If you don't already have the record, oh, the horror. What's lame is that Liz Phair is doing the music for "Swingtown" a guilty pleasure for me, but man, Liz, I thought you were going to change maybe not the world, but something. (I'm listening to Exile now, still as great as ever.)